February 17
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1897 - The first State Congress of the NPTA was organized in New York. One of the first major projects the PTA worked on was the extension of kindergartens to the elementary school grades.
1924 - Swimmer (and later Tarzan) Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-meter freestyle. He did it with a time of 57.4 seconds in Miami, FL.
1933 - Blondie Boopadoop, the title role and flapper in the comic strip Blondie, married Dagwood Bumstead. The marriage took place three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted in U.S. newspapers. Later, Blondie became a hit on radio, television and in films, as well.
1933 - News-Week appeared on the corner newsstand for the first time. Seven pictures graced the magazine’s first cover, depicting an important happening for each day of the week. In 1937, the publication’s masthead sported a new name: Newsweek.
1934 - The first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA. Maybe that’s why Penn State’s students are all such good drivers (just a guess).
1949 - Richard (Dick) Button bested all competition in Paris, France to retain the world title of the men’s figure skating championship. Button is a commentator on figure skating events the world over for American television, including Olympics competition.
1954 - Doris Day’s single, Secret Love, became the #1 tune in the U.S. The song, from the motion picture, Calamity Jane, stayed at the top of the music charts for three weeks.
1958 - Former New York Giants football star Frank Gifford signed a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers in a film deal that didn’t make him the movie star the studio expected. So, Giff went into broadcasting instead. His first job was as a sportscaster for WCBS-TV in New York. He then moved to WABC-TV in New York and on to network television as primary play-by-play announcer and then to color commentator on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
1958 - Cartoonist Johnny Hart’s B.C. comic strip appeared for the first time.
1962 - The Beach Boys started making waves with their first Southern California hit, Surfin’. Their new musical style swept the U.S. like a tidal wave when they hit nationally with Surfin’ Safari in August of this same year.
1962 - Gene Chandler hit #1 with Duke of Earl on this day. The song stayed at the tippy-top for three weeks. It hit #1 on the rhythm & blues charts, as well. Duke of Earl was Chandler’s biggest hit out of a half-dozen he recorded. His only other million seller came with Groovy Situation in 1970. Curtis Mayfield wrote several hits for Chandler, including Just Be True, What Now and Nothing Can Stop Me. Chandler’s real name is Eugene Dixon. He owned his own record label, Mr. Chand, from 1969 to 1973, though "Groovy Situation" was recorded in 1970 for Mercury.
1964 - Luke Appling became the 101st member elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1965 - Comedienne Joan Rivers made the first of many guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC-TV. She later became Carson’s permanent guest host until she signed a lucrative late-night show deal with fledgling FOX television. Johnny was less than impressed and didn’t allow her back on his show.
1966 - Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler received a gold record from RCA Victor, for both the album and the single of The Ballad of the Green Berets. Sadler, who recorded one other single (The "A" Team) for the label, had served in Vietnam until injuring a leg in a Viet Cong booby trap. Tragically, Sadler was shot in the head during a 1988 robbery attempt at his Guatemala home. He suffered irreparable brain damage and died of heart failure in November, 1989 in Tennessee. He was 49 years old.
1968 - The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon departed Washington, DC on his historic trip to China. Thousands gathered on the White House lawn for a big send-off. What’s the big deal, you ask? He was the first U.S. president to go to China, that’s what.
1976 - The Eagles album Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) was released. It would eventually sell more than 25 million copies in the US, second only to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
1982 - Pianist Thelonious Monk, one of the pioneers of the bop (or bebop, if you prefer) movement in jazz, died of a stroke in New York at the age of 64. Monk began playing in Harlem clubs in the late 1930s.
1985 - Postage stamp prices were hiked to 22 cents for first-class mail in the U.S.
1985 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. rode his 6,000th career winner at Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia, CA. He became the third jockey to reach that coveted mark (behind Willie Shoemaker and Johnny Longden). Talk about a Winner’s Circle of racing legends...
1987 - Don Mattingly won the highest award in the 13-year history of salary arbitration when a judge ruled that the New York Yankee first baseman deserved a salary of $1,975,000. Have times ever changed...
1990 - Opposites Attract, by Paula Abdul with The Wild Pair, was #1 in the U.S. for the second of of three weeks. On the Country chart, On Second Thought, by Eddie Rabbitt, was #1 for the first of two weeks.
1992 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. (He was murdered in prison Nov 28, 1994.)
1993 - The Neptune, a triple-deck ferry, capsized off southern peninsula of Haiti during a squall. The overloaded ferry carried some 1,500 people. Only 285 survived.
1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Railroad shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.
1996 - One Sweet Day, by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, was number one for the 12th of 16 weeks. Now that’s what we call a smash! Bigger Than The Beatles, by Joe Diffie was beginnning a 2-week run at #1 on the Country music chart.
1997 - The Virginia House of Delegates voted to retire the state song Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, and make it the state song emeritus.
1998 - The U.S. women’s hockey team won the gold medal at Nagano, Japan, defeating Canada 3-1.
1998 - Composer and lyricist Bob Merrill committed suicide after a series of health problems. He was 74 years old. Merrill’s work included the musicals Carnival and Funny Girl and the song How Much is That Doggie in the Window.
1999 - In Berlin Israeli security guards shot and killed three Kurds who forced their way into the Israeli consulate. The protesters were enraged by reports that Israel aided in the arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
2000 - Windows 2000 Professional Edition was released. Windows 2000 was “the next generation NT operating system” that Microsoft said took four years and cost over $1 billion to develop.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) named John Negroponte to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
2002- The new Transportation Security Administration [TSA] took over U.S. aviation security from the Federal Aviation Administration.
2003 - An estimated 40-million viewers tuned in to the finale of the Fox reality show Joe Millionaire. (Evan Marriott chose Zora Andrich.)
2003 - A blizzard shut down much of the U.S. mid-Atlantic region with windblown snow up to four feet deep, halting air and some rail travel and caused at lest 40 deaths.
2004 - Cingular Wireless won the bidding war to acquire AT&T Wireless Services for nearly $41 billion in cash. The deal created the largest cell phone company in the U.S. to that time.
2005 - Chubu Centrair International Airport opened on Ise Bay, south of Nagoya, Japan. Built on an artificial island, the new airport was built to replace nearby Nagoya Airport.
2006 - Films opening in U.S. movie houses: Date Movie, starring Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, Sophie Monk, Carmen Electra; Eight Below, with Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Jason Biggs, Moon Bloodgood, Wendy Crewson and Gerard Plunkett; and Freedomland, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie and Aunjanue Ellis.
2006 - A fierce storm winter storm system swept across the Midwest U.S., destroying buildings in Indiana, pelting Arkansas with hail and cutting power to thousands in Michigan.
2007 - 8,962 people flapped their arms and legs making snow angels on the state Capitol grounds in Bismarck, ND in a successful attempt at reclaiming the Guinness snow angel record (it had gone to Michigan the previous year).
2008 - British chancellor Alistair Darling announced that stricken mortgage lender Northern Rock would be nationalized.
2009 - Chrysler and General Motors told the U.S. government they would need some $21.6 billion in combined bailout loans. GM’s survival plan called for cutting a total of 47,000 jobs globally and closing five U.S. factories.
2010 - France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit by a French president to Haiti, once his nation’s richest colony. Sarkozy pledged that France would cancel Haiti’s 56-million debt and pledged hundreds of millions in aid to help Haiti recover from the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010.
2011 - Rise opened in U.S. theatres. The sports documentary features Brian Boitano, Patricia Clarkson, Dakota Fanning, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton and Michelle Kwan.
2011 - U.S. federal authorities charged 111 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud totaling over $225 million, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history. The indictments were for suspects in Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Brooklyn, Tampa and Baton Rouge.
2012 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, starring Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, Ciarán Hinds, Christopher Lambert, Anthony Head, Violante Placido, Johnny Whitworth and Fergus Riordan; the animated adventure, The Secret World of Arrietty, featuring the voices of Mirai Shida, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Shinobu Ohtake, Keiko Takeshita, Tatsuya Fujiwara and Tomokazu Miura; and Thin Ice, starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup, David Harbour, Bob Balaban and Lea Thompson.
2012 - Swiss authorities announced their confiscation of $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. bonds at the request of Italian prosecutors. In Italy eight people were arrested and placed under investigation for fraud and other crimes. The bonds, with false 1934 issue dates, had been transported in 2007 from Hong Kong to Zurich, where they were transferred to a Swiss trust.
2013 - Iran’s independent Arman daily reported that authorities were confiscating Buddha statues from shops in Tehran. This, in a continuing effort to stop the promotion of Buddhism in Iran.
2014 - A propane tank exploded at the entrance of a residential building in the old city of Acre, Israel. The blast killed five people and injured 12. Police said they suspected the explosion was an attempt to destroy a cell-phone antenna that had been blamed for neighborhood cancer rates.
2015 - Seaports on the U.S. West Coast that had all but shut down because of a contract dispute, were reopening as Labor Secretary Tom Perez tried to solve a stalemate between dockworkers and their employers. Ships were unable to be unloaded over the weekend after the Pacific Maritime Association – which represents West Coast terminal operators – locked out members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The PMA said it did not want to pay the higher holiday wages when union members were intentionally slowing down their work.
2015 - Canada imposed sanctions on Russia because of Russia’s operations in Ukraine. Moscow reacted by asserting the Canadian action would fuel tensions in Ukraine and prevent the implementation of a ceasefire.
2016 - Nine Kurdish soldiers were admitted to hospitals with symptoms including vomiting, nausea, shortness of breath and itching. This, after Islamic State militants fired mortar shells filled with a chemical substance, possibly chlorine, at Kurdish troops close to the Iraqi town of Sinjar.
2017 - New motion pictures in U.S. theatres included: A Cure for Wellness, with Jason Isaacs, Dane DeHaan and Mia Goth; Fist Fight, starring Christina Hendricks, Ice Cube and Charlie Day; The Great Wall, with Matt Damon, Tian Jing and Pedro Pascal; Everybody Loves Somebody, with Karla Souza, Ben O’Toole and Stefanie Estes; Lovesong, starring Riley Keough, Jessie Ok Gray and Cary Joji Fukunaga; and XX, with Melanie Lynskey, Sheila Vand and Natalie Brown.
2017 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he was quitting his additional role as communication minister. This, after police questioned him over allegations that he negotiated a deal for good press coverage with a newspaper owner.
2017 - Philippines’ senator Leila de Lima, a prominent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-drug crackdown, was charged by prosecutors with receiving bribes from detained drug lords. De Lima denied the charges. When she was a top human rights official, de Lima had tried unsuccessfully to have Duterte prosecuted (when he was still a city mayor) for unlawful deaths occurring during his deadly anti-drug crackdown.
2018 - The Swedish foreign ministry confirmed that it had granted citizenship to Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian academic with Swedish residency. He had been arrested in Tehran in April 2016 and later convicted of espionage, accused of providing information to Israel’s Mossad to help it assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. Djalali had earlier confessed on Iranian State TV for spying on behalf of Israel. Amnesty International stated however that the confession had been forced out of him.
2019 - ‘Yellow vest’ demonstrations in central Paris marked the third month of the anti-government protests. One group of protesters shouted anti-Semitic insults at philosopher and writer Alain Finkielkraut during demonstrations. And a police car stuck in a traffic jam in Lyon, southeastern France, was stoned by demonstrators.
2019 - Saudi Arabia signed a deal with France’s Naval Group to build warships in the kingdom, as part of its efforts to develop domestic manufacturing capabilities. Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI).
2020 - Home goods retailer Pier 1 Imports filed for bankruptcy. The Fort Worth-based company, which was founded in 1962, had been struggling with increased competition from online retailers such as Wayfair and Amazon. Pier 1 had more than 1,000 locations at the beginning of 2020.
2020 - China reported 2,048 new cases of the coronavirus and 105 more deaths. Another 10,844 people had recovered, and had been discharged from hospitals. The death toll reached 1,770 with 70,548 cases. Another 1,200 doctors and nurses from China’s military began arriving in Wuhan. It was the latest contingent sent to help shore up the city’s overwhelmed health care system.
2020 - Japanese officials confirmed 99 more people were infected by the new virus aboard the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 454. This, as two charter flights carrying U.S. passengers from the infected ship landed at military bases in California and Texas. The captives were forced into a two-week quarantine to ensure they did not have -- or spread -- the COVID-19 virus.
2021 - Google agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for content from news sites across its media empire. News Corporation said it would be sharing its stories in exchange for “significant payments.”
2021 - President Joe Biden approved Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s request for a disaster declaration in response to a winter storm. And Greece called in its armed forces to help repair widespread damage caused by heavy snowfall in Athens, while blizzards continued to cause havoc in neighboring Turkey; the snow reached as far as Libya.
2021 - Three North Koreans were indicted in the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack -- a wide-ranging scheme to steal and extort more than $1 billion in cash and cryptocurrency from banks and companies based across the globe.
2021 - Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency said that Russia was counting on the COVID-19 pandemic to weaken unity in the West and lead to “declining Western influence on the global stage".
2022 - Bernie Madoff’s sister, Sondra Weiner, and her husband, Marvin Weiner, were found dead in Florida. Police said it was a murder-suicide and that Sondra apparently fired the shots. The bodies of the elderly couple were found at their Valencia Lakes home in Boynton Beach. The Weiners lost millions of dollars in Madoff’s Ponzi scam of several decades earlier.
2022 - President Biden said there was every indication Russia was going to attack/invade Ukraine within days, including signs that Moscow was carrying out a false flag operation to justify it. This, after Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire.
2022 - Beijing Olympics: Canadian women overpowered the United States in the gold medal hockey game, 3-2, and reclaimed the Olympic crown that the Americans had wrested away four years earlier.
2023 - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opened in the U.S. The super hero flick stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Evangeline Lilly (Wasp), Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, William Jackson Harper and Katy M. O’Brian.
2023 - The global LGBT festival WorldPride opened in Sydney, Australia. It was the first time the festival was held in the Southern Hemisphere
2023 - The U.S. called off its search for two mysterious objects shot down by the military after crews came up empty-handed in their efforts. Searchers had been looking for debris of unidentified flying objects downed by U.S. fighter jets over Lake Huron and a remote area of Alaska.
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Birthdays on This Day February 17
1766 - Thomas Malthus
economist, demographer: The Malthusian Theory: population growth exceed production growth; died Dec 29, 18341774 - Raphaelle Peale
artist: Bowl of Peaches; died Mar 4, 18251781 - René Laënnec
physician; writer: papers on respiratory and heart ailments; inventor: stethoscope; died Aug 13, 18261843 - Aaron Montgomery Ward
merchant; department store mogul; died Dec 7, 19131889 - H.L. (Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt
industrialist; died Nov 29, 19741907 - Marjorie Lawrence
opera soprano: “One of the truest Wagnerian interpreters of our time, unchallenged for the stirring magnificence of her Brunnhilde and the tender simplicity of her Sieglinde, or the stately loveliness of her Elsa and the compelling malevolence of her Ortrud.”; died Jan 13, 19791908 - Red Barber
‘The redhead in the catbird seat’: sportscaster: voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers; died Oct 22, 19921910 - Marc Lawrence
actor: The Big Easy, Ruby, Nightmare in the Sun, The Asphalt Jungle, My Favorite Spy, Marathon Man, The Man with the Golden Gun; died Nov 27, 20051911 - Orrin Tucker
singer, bandleader: Drifting and Dreaming, Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!; died Apr 9, 20111914 - (John) Arthur Kennedy
actor: The President’s Plane is Missing, Some Came Running, Lawrence of Arabia, Anzio; died Jan 5, 19901914 - (Bert DeWayne) Wayne Morris
actor: Paths of Glory, Task Force; died Sep 14, 19591916 - Raf (Raffaele) Vallone
actor: The Godfather, Part 3, Harlow, El Cid, Bitter Rice, Obsession; died Oct 31, 20021919 - Kathleen Freeman
actress: Ready to Rumble, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Blues Brothers 2000, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Dutch; Broadway: The Full Monty; died Aug 23, 20011923 - Buddy (Boniface) DeFranco
clarinetist, bandleader: won all modern jazz music polls in the early 1950s; died Dec 24, 20141924 - (Mary) Margaret Truman (Daniel)
daughter of 33rd U.S. President Harry S Truman; author: Souvenier, Margaret Truman’s Own Story, Women of Courage, Bess W. Truman; died Jan 29, 20081925 - Hal Holbrook (Harold Rowe Jr.)
actor: Mark Twain, All the President’s Men, Sorry Wrong Number, Midway, Our Town, The Firm, Wall Street, Magnum Force; died Jan 23, 20211926 - Jeremy Slate
actor: The Aquanauts, G.I. Blues, Girls! Girls! Girls!, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Devil’s Brigade, True Grit, The Centerfold Girls, The Lawnmower Man; died Nov 19, 20061929 - Chaim Potok
rabbi, doctor of philosophy, author: The Chosen, The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev; died July 23, 20021930 - Roger (Lee) Craig
baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1955, 1956], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959], NY Mets, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1964], Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies; manager: SF Giants; died Jun 4, 20231934 - Alan (Arthur) Bates
actor: An Unmarried Woman, Women in Love, Zorba; died Dec 27, 20031934 - Willie (Charles) Kirkland
baseball: SF Giants, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators1936 - Jim Brown
Pro Football Hall of Famer [running back]: Cleveland Browns [1957–1965]; actor: The Dirty Dozen, El Condor, Ice Station Zebra, Crack House; died May 18, 20231939 - Mary Ann Mobley
Miss America [1959]; actress: Bandit: Bandit Bandit, Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story, The Girl on the Late, Late Show, Istanbul Express, For Singles Only; TV: Perry Mason, Mission: Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Virginian; died Dec 9, 20141940 - Gene Pitney
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer: Town Without Pity, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Only Love Can Break A Heart, It Hurts to be in Love; songwriter: Hello Mary Lou, He’s a Rebel; found dead Apr 5, 20061945 - Zina Bethune
dancer, choreographer, actress: Sunrise at Campobello, Who’s that Knocking at My Door?, The Nurses, Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder; died Feb 12, 20121945 - Brenda Fricker
Academy Award-winning actress: My Left Foot [1989], A Time to Kill, Angels in the Outfield, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Field1946 - Dodie Stevens (Geraldine Ann Pasquale)
singer: Pink Shoe Laces1951 - Dirty Harry (Harry William Rivera)
actor [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Perverted Stories: The Movie, Crazy in the Head, Crazy in the Bed, Stiffer Competition, Texas Vibrator Massacre1953 - Becky Ann Baker
actress: Two Weeks Notice, Storm of the Century, A Simple Plan, Celebrity, In and Out, Men in Black, I’m Not Rappaport; Broadway: Assassins, Titanic, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1954 - Rene Russo
actress: Sable, Major League, Freejack, Lethal Weapon 3, In the Line of Fire, Major League II, Lethal Weapon 4, The Thomas Crown Affair1956 - Richard Karn
actor: Home Improvement, Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy, MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate, Air Buddies, Snow Buddies, True Jackson, VP, Last Man Standing; TV game show host: Family Feud [2000-2006]1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips
actor: Courage Under Fire, Extreme Justice, Young Guns series, Harley, La Bamba, Stand and Deliver1963 - Michael Jordan
basketball: Chicago Bulls: NBA MVP [1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998]; NBA MVP in finals [1991-1993, 1996-1998; Washington Wizards; Olympic Gold Medalist [1984, 1992]; baseball minor league player1963 - Larry the Cable Guy (Daniel Lawrence Whitney)
stand-up comic, actor: Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Delta Farce, Witless Protection; voice actor: Cars film series1965 - Michael Bay
film director: Transformers series, Armageddon, The Rock, Bad Boys, The Island, Pain & Gain, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Pearl Harbor1967 - Nicole Mitchell
jazz flautist, composer: Xenogenesis Suite, Aquarius, Artifacts, Moments of Fatherhood, Mandorla Awakening II - Emerging Worlds, Liberation Narratives; former president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians [AACM]1968 - Bryan Cox
football [linebacker]: Western Illinois Univ; NFL: and played for the Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, New England Patriots and New Orleans Saints1969 - Traci Adell
model: Playboy Playmate July 1994; actress: Deadly Currency, T.N.T., Playback, Life 101, Dumb and Dumber1969 - Levon Kirkland
football [linebacker]: Clemson Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks, Philadelphia Eagles1969 - Tuesday Knight
actress: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Diamond Zero, The Perfect Mother, Strike Back, Mistress, Promised a Miracle1970 - Dominic Purcell
actor: Prison Break, Blade: Trinity, Raw FM, John Doe, Assault on Wall Street, Breakout, Fast and Furious 71971 - Danny Patterson
baseball [pitcher]: Cerritos Jr. College; Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, SL Cardinals
1971 - Denise Richards
actress: Wild Things, Starship Troopers, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Love Actually, Scary Movie 3, The World is Not Enough1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong
Grammy Award-winning singer Dookie [1994]; group: Green Day; musician: guitar; songwriter1972 - Chris Cannon
actor [1997-2011]: X-rated films: Naughty College School Girls 2, Nasty Nympho Nurses, Sinister Sex World, Mondo Porno, Dirty Dancers: The Movie, True Hardwood Stories, Guide to Threesomes: Two Guys & a Girl, Guide to the Perfect Orgy1974 - Jerry O’Connell
actor: The Defenders, Stand by Me, Room 6, Man About Town, Yours, Mine and Ours, Kangaroo Jack, The New Guy, Tomcats, Mission to Mars1974 - Bryan White
singer: Someone Else’s Star, Rebecca Lynn, So Much for Pretending, Sittin’ on Go1975 - Todd Harvey
hockey [right wing[: Dallas Stars, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks, Edmonton Oilers1977 - Jeff Ulbrich
football [linebacker]: Univ of Hawaii; NFL: San Francisco 49ers1978 - Ashton Holmes
actor: Revenge, A History of Violence, The Pacific, Nikita, What We Do Is Secret, The Divide1980 - Al Harrington
basketball [forward, center]: Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors1980 - Jason Ritter
actor: Freddy Vs. Jason, Mumford, The Dreamer of Oz, Joan of Arcadia, Days of Our Lives, Parenthood; son of actor John Ritter and actress Nancy Morgan1981 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
actor: 3rd Rock from the Sun, [500] Days of Summer, Inception, 50/50, 10 Things I Hate About You, Manic, Mysterious Skin, Brick, The Lookout, Killshot, Shadowboxer, Havoc, Latter Days, Forever Lulu, Picking Up the Pieces1981 - Paris Hilton
actress: Pledge This!, House of Wax, Raising Helen, L.A. Knights, The Cat in the Hat, Wonderland, Nine Lives; Paris and her sister Nicky are heiresses to the Hilton Hotel fortune1987 - Amy Rodriguez
U.S. footballer [forward, winger]: 2008, 2012 Olympic gold medalists; 2015 World Cup champs1989 - Rebecca Adlington
freestyle swimmer: won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing [400m and 800m]; won bronze medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London [400m and 800m]1989 - Chord Overstreet
musician: drums, flute, piano, guitar; singer, actor: Glee, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, Private, A Warrior’s Heart, The Hole1991 - Ed Sheeran
Grammy Award-winning singer: Thinking Out Loud; The A Team, Sing, Shape of You, Perfect, I Don’t Care (with Justin Bieber), Beautiful People (featuring Khalid), Take Me Back to London (featuring Stormzy), Afterglow1991 - Jeremy Allen White
actor: Shameless, Beautiful Ohio, The Speed of Life, Afterschool, Twelve, After Everything, Viena and the Fantomes, The Rental, Shameless, The Bear1991 - Bonnie Wright
actress: Harry Potter series, Stranded, Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures1996 - Sasha Pieterse
actress: Pretty Little Liars, Geek Charming, G.B.F., Ivy + Bean1997 - Dee (Baker)
actress [1997-2009]: X-rated films: Recipe for Sex, Trial by Copulation, The Oral Adventures of Craven Moorehead 6, Exposed: Featuring Dee
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Hit Music on This Day February 17
1951My Heart Cries for You (facts) - Guy Mitchell
Tennessee Waltz (facts) - Patti Page
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